Repeated pharyngitis, gingivitis and urinary tract infections have a high chance of triggering kidney disease.
Some investigations have confirmed that if a human being has frequent infections, he has a higher chance of getting chronic kidney disease than the average person. This is because, bacteria cause infection, which may cause the body’s immune response against the infection, and the products of these immune responses often have to be cleared through the kidneys, so repeated infections, the kidney burden is heavy and the chance of damage is high.
Laryngitis, gingivitis and urinary tract infections should be given special attention. Inside the infections, these three infections have the highest chances of causing chronic kidney disease.
Indiscriminate use of pain-relieving and fever-reducing drugs, Chinese medicine and antibiotics are also likely to cause drug-related nephropathy. The indiscriminate use of drugs can also damage the kidneys and cause chronic kidney disease. Pain and fever-reducing drugs, most of these drugs are nephrotoxic, and even some allergic patients taking one drug may cause allergic kidney failure. There are also more patients who have no symptoms at the time, long-term use, slowly accumulate, leading to kidney damage.
There are some proprietary Chinese medicines and herbs, most of these herbs claim to have the effect of lowering fire, relieving heat and diuretic, known herbs such as zedoary, mucuna pruriens and antifungal.
The State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine has banned certain drugs with clear nephrotoxicity in clinical practice, such as “Guan Xin Shu He San” for heart disease and “Gan Lu Wu Thirst Pill” for heat stroke.
Some antibiotics, especially aminoglycosides, are nephrotoxic, such as gentamicin and caramycin.
Chronic kidney disease is very common in our country because of repeated infections and indiscriminate use of drugs. There are two kinds of people in the clinic, one kind of people do not take small inflammation seriously, throat inflammation and gum inflammation more feel that it is a trivial matter of trivial matters, do not go to treatment. Little do they know that these small infections can also affect the kidneys. There is another kind of people, a headache and brain fever, not to the hospital, their own indiscriminate medication, every week to fill the prescription, every week to visit the pharmacy, as a result of indiscriminate use of drugs and disease.
Diabetes and hypertension cause more and more kidney disease
In the past, it was thought that those who had bad kidneys were elderly people, and those who suffered from uremia because of kidney failure were also elderly people, but now there are more and more young people with chronic kidney disease in outpatient clinics.
The Epidemiological Survey of Chronic Kidney Disease in China shows that the independent causative factors of chronic kidney disease include diabetes, hypertension, hyperuricemia, and long-term heavy use of nephrotoxic drugs.
In western countries, diabetes causes the most chronic kidney disease among all chronic kidney disease patients, and ranks second in China.
Diabetes can cause damage to multiple organs throughout the body, including the kidneys. Mainly, the blood contains sugar, which leads to abnormal protein deposition to the kidney, damaging the blood vessels and damaging the kidney function; at the same time, it also produces inflammatory mediators, leading to kidney fibrosis and aggravating ischemic damage to the kidney.
Hypertension can also lead to kidney offenses, initially manifesting as damage to the renal tubules, and later with varying degrees of renal ischemic lesions.
The idea that diabetes and hypertension can cause kidney problems is not known to many people. Generally, people think that with diabetes and hypertension, as long as you take the medicine for these two aspects on time, there is no problem with your body. In fact, if you have these two diseases, you should also pay attention to kidney health and should visit a nephrology specialist at the same time.
If you take your medication on time and control your diabetes well in the early stage of diabetes, and pay attention to your kidneys at the same time, you may not come to this point. Chronic kidney disease develops into uremia at the end, which depends on hemodialysis or kidney transplant to maintain life. Mr. Zhang is in the early stage of uremia, which is already very dangerous.
Eating too much seafood and too salty will also increase the burden on the kidneys
Seafood contains a lot of protein, protein metabolism to form uric acid, too much uric acid deposited in the kidneys, resulting in hyperuricemia, which can damage kidney function.
Prevent chronic kidney disease to drink more water
To drink a full 8 bottles of water every day to prevent chronic kidney disease, you can start by controlling the causes of chronic kidney disease.
With diabetes and hypertension, of course, we should actively treat them, and at the same time, we should do kidney checkups and pay attention to kidney health.
Beware of all kinds of infections, go to the ear, nose and throat department for laryngitis, and seek a dentist for gingivitis and periodontitis. These infections, in addition to possibly triggering chronic kidney disease, can also lead to heart disease, should not be underestimated ah.
Women, also be alert to urinary tract infections, women have a shorter urethra, and the urethra and kidneys are close to each other, once the infection, the kidneys will also suffer. And urinary tract infection does not necessarily have symptoms, some have frequent urination, urinary urgency and painful urination and other performance.
The medication, follow the principle of “if you are not sick, you do not eat, and if you are sick, you should go to the hospital and take the medication”, do not take the medication yourself.
In addition, to prevent kidney disease, you can drink more water, drinking more water can excrete excessive metabolic waste, including uric acid, prevent kidney and urinary system stones, but also to prevent urinary tract infections. He carries a thermos bottle (about 250 ml) with him every day and drinks more than 8 bottles a day.
But if you already have kidney disease, drinking water should be controlled under the guidance of a doctor, some patients drink more will increase the burden on the kidneys.
Do not exceed daily meat dishes.
1 piece of pancetta + 1 chicken leg + 2 taels of fish
Also, control the daily intake of protein. A reasonable protein intake should be linked to one’s body weight, and it is recommended that 1 gram/per kilogram of body weight per day. Let’s say, weight 60 kg, then you should not exceed 60 grams of protein a day.
Translated into food, the protein content of a bottle of milk (250g) contains about 7.5g, a cup of soy milk (250g) 4.5g, a bowl of rice (100g) 7.4g, wheat made noodles (200g) 31.4g, a piece of pancetta (50g) 6.6g, a steak (100g) 20.2g, a chicken leg (100g) 19.3g, a piece of carp meat (100 g) 17.6 g, two large prawns (100 g) 18.6 g, a squid (100 g) 15.2 g.
According to the weight, a person weighing 60 kg, a day of meat dishes to eat a piece of pork, a chicken leg, 2 two fish is about the same, the other protein share is also reserved for dairy, staple foods and vegetables.
The physical examination report should pay special attention to
Urine protein and creatinine
Chronic kidney disease is the “silent killer”, there are no symptoms in the early stage, so what tests can be used to detect it?
During the physical examination, pay attention to several items.
1.Urinary routine
This item is the most direct indicator to understand the kidney function and urinary system status. It is recommended not to drink after 8 pm the night before the physical examination, and send the urine fresh for examination the next morning.
2.Urine microprotein
This indicator can reflect the early kidney damage, friends with diabetes and high blood pressure must be checked regularly.
3.Creatinine
This can be known by drawing blood, the range of creatinine indicator varies greatly for each person, so the absence of arrow in the report does not mean you have no problem. Creatinine indicators, women over 80, men over 90 should be careful. And in the physical examination report, creatinine exceeds 133 before there are arrows suggesting abnormalities.
4.Kidney ultrasound
Elderly people should do kidney ultrasound to measure the length, width and thickness of the kidneys and write down the values. Because with chronic kidney disease, the kidneys will have ischemic symptoms, which are manifested as shrinking kidneys.
5.Glomerular Filtration Rate
This value represents your real kidney function, that is, how many milliliters of metabolic waste in blood can be removed by kidney in 1 minute, representing how much function it has, which can be calculated by the formula, combined with blood creatinine, age, gender and race.
In addition to these tests, patients with chronic kidney disease may have swelling (swollen eyelids in the morning), back pain, deepening color of urine, and frothiness.